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Redford pips Spielberg to Lincoln movie
Published Tuesday, Aug 18 2009, 09:20 BST | By Simon Reynolds
Rex Features
James Solomon penned the script for the project, which centres on Mary Surratt and her involvement with Lincoln's killer John Wilkes Booth. Surratt was a Washington boardinghouse owner who is alleged to have supplied Wilkes Booth and his accomplice David Herold with weapons after he shot the president at Ford's Theatre in April 1865.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, James McAvoy is the top choice to take on a lead role in The Conspirator. The part is rumoured to be that of a Union hero appointed to defend Surratt who eventually comes to believe that she is innocent.
Redford's movie will shoot this autumn ahead of Steven Spielberg's long-in-development Lincoln biopic with Liam Neeson.
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